Brian Campbell was educated at Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Oxford and is Professor of Roman History. From 2002 to 2005 he held a Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship to pursue a project on rivers in the ancient world, and in 2005 he was a visiting fellow at All Souls', Oxford. In 2004 he delivered the Broughton Memorial Lecture at the University of North Carolina. He is a member of the AHRC Peer Review College.

Research Interests

His main research interests lie in the area of the Roman army, ancient military writers, Roman imperial politics, and land survey.